Hispanic surnames and family history /

A comprehensive analytical work on Hispanic surnames and an extensive bibliography of family histories. This is not a study of surnames or family history in Spain per se. Rather it is a review of the development of Spanish surnames in Latin America and the Hispanic United States, with references to...

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Main Author: Platt, Lyman De.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, MD : Genealogical Pub. Co., 1996.
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Table of Contents:
  • Hispanic surnames : Demographics: twentieth-century development of Hispanic surnames ; The history of surnames ; Surnames and heraldry ; One thousand most common surnames ; IGHL's Hispanic surname study
  • 1500 surnames: alphabetical listing
  • Major research sources for Hispanic research
  • Spanish surnames for which there exist histories or historical sketches in the United States and Latin America
  • Bibliography of family histories in the United States and Latin America
  • Appendix 1 : Spanish personal names
  • Appendix 2 : 1980 census list of Spanish surnames
  • Appendix 3 : Garcia Carraffa's Enciclopedia heráldica y genealógica
  • Appendix 4 : Julio de Atienza's Nobiliario Español: diccionario heráldico de apellidos Españoles y de títulos nobiliarios
  • Appendix 5 : Luis Vilar y Pascual's Diccionario histórico, genealógico y heráldico de las familias ilustres de la monarquía Española.